Sara Khatun,
Programme Manager, NETZ
Our project began in 2018 with an aim to strengthen the grassroots civil society so that they can actively enhance their operational space and direct it towards the protection of human rights and prevent violence based on gender and other identities. This project has been implementing in partnership with WE CAN, DASCOH Foundation, and NETZ with the financial assistance of the European Union. Bangladesh has various laws to promote women s rights and prevent violence against women but there is a gap in implementation. Through this project, we have organised 3,200 civil society actors in 128 groups and arranged regular dialogues with 1,600 representatives from 44 public authorities; training has been provided to 160 marriage registrars and 40 female police officers on Child Marriage Restraint Act (CMRA) and Domestic Violence Protection Act (DVA). So far, 1,501 gender-based violence (GBV) cases have been reported by the CSOs and addressed with co
Taking responsibility of girl child ‘discomforting’ for society, families
Says rights activist Sultana Kamal Staff Correspondent Staff Correspondent
Both society and families feel discomfort in taking responsibility of a girl child as soon as she is born, eminent rights activist Sultana Kamal has said. A great revelation of this discomfort is child marriage, she said while addressing a virtual roundtable on Strengthened Civil Society Protects and Promotes Women s Rights organised by Netz Bangladesh in partnership with We Can, Dascoh Foundation, and The Daily Star.
Addressing as guest speaker, Kamal said many parents think they do not need to be responsible for their girl child once she is married off.
Together against the catastrophe
Award-winning photographer Noor Ahmed Gelal portrays people whose lives are threatened by climate change. And yet they are successfully resisting it with a sense of community and respect for nature. This is the subject of a new book, a joint German-Bangladeshi project.
Sven Wagner
Sven Wagner
The plains and river regions of Bangladesh bear witness to the fatal effects of excessive consumption, resource depletion, and misguided international climate policy. Families fighting poverty, eroded riverbanks leaving destruction in their wake, and the community, solidarity, and knowledge of those people in the village all of this encompasses life in rural Bangladesh. Bangladeshi photographer Noor Ahmed Gelal, whose work has appeared in national dailies and at exhibitions around the world including Singapore, China, Paris, and Italy, captures this life in his photographs. For good reason, for these regions are the scenes of the greatest challenge of our
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